This year, for perhaps the first time ever, Gary Bettman may not get booed by hockey fans.
Well, let’s not get that far ahead of things.
Say this, however, for the forever beleaguered commissioner of the National Hockey League: He managed to come up with a sensible, ready-to-go return-to-action plan for hockey this summer.
An official date isn’t set yet — formal training camps won’t begin before July 1 and it might take three or so weeks after that. There isn’t a set location — two “hub” cities will be used out of a list of 10.